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[00:00:00] shipments facing a 12 and a half percent duty. Washington
[00:00:03] introduced the measures over forced labor concerns targeting
[00:00:07] products like chemicals and optical equipment.
[00:00:10] Singapore says it found no evidence of forced labor in its
[00:00:14] exports but warned that restrictions could hurt global supply
[00:00:18] chains. Meanwhile, Brazil's central bank
[00:00:21] has cut its benchmark interest rate for fourth straight meeting,
[00:00:25] lowering it to 14%. But authorities say they will
[00:00:29] remain. cautious as higher oil prices and inflation risks
[00:00:33] continue to cloud the outlook. the latest decision comes less
[00:00:37] than two months before Brazil's presidential election, with inflation
[00:00:41] remaining key concern for many
[00:00:43] a
[00:00:46] of voters. and Australia posted a trade surplus of $1.4 billion
[00:00:50] dollars in June
[00:00:51] a after deficit in May. the surprise recovery was driven
[00:00:54] by nearly 10% jump in exports led by stronger
[00:00:58] shipments of metal or and coal,
[00:01:01] of but analysts say
[00:01:02] a Australia's trade position is still weakening as the
[00:01:05] of long-running commodity boom begins to
[00:01:07] fade
[00:01:22] let us look atuh some of our top stories um
[00:01:26] this hour, and Iran's...
[00:01:30] says it has reached an understanding with oman a route for ships
[00:01:33] transiting through the straight of
[00:01:46] Baits is in the studio with the
[00:01:47] details.
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[00:03:56] Hello and welcome back to the news hour reminder then of our
[00:03:59] a top stories and Iran has said that it's reached an
[00:04:02] understanding with oman on route for ships transiting the straight of
[00:04:06] homos. The Pakistani
[00:04:09] a mediators have been speaking on these US Iran talks saying
[00:04:13] that it hopes the Homas agreement will lead to the resumption of
[00:04:17] of discussions. Israel's continued challing
[00:04:21] in southern Lebanon has wounded at least four people in overnight
[00:04:25] strikes, taking place as delegates from both countries
[00:04:29] are in
[00:04:29] of Rome. discussing the
[00:04:33] in of next phase of a gradual Israeli withdraw
[00:04:33] of from southern Lebanon.
[00:04:38] of of now three people have been killed in overnight strikes by Russia on Ukraine's eastern city, all
[00:04:42] of Balakilia in the Hakiv region.
[00:04:45] of of rescue operations are underway as team struggle to clear Debry. It
[00:04:49] comes after at least 17 people were killed and dozens
[00:04:53] injured by a barrage of Russian missiles and drones that was launched at
[00:04:57] Keiv and the surrounding region. Earlier
[00:05:00] on Wednesday. Now, soon after the attacks,
[00:05:04] Ukraine's president spoke with NATO and its allies
[00:05:08] calling for more support. Vladimir Zelensky has also been...
[00:05:12] hosting the UK's defense secretary in kieve telling him that
[00:05:16] Moscow wants to further escalate the
[00:05:18] conflict. we think that we need the
[00:05:22] unanimity and we need strong support
[00:05:24] from from your country and from all other European France
[00:05:28] that it this is a signal also that Russia gives us
[00:05:32] and to the wall that they don't want to stop and I
[00:05:36] think that they want to continue and I mean increase
[00:05:39] escalation yes using the... ballistic missiles
[00:05:43] and we have our estimation, i want to share with you, we
[00:05:47] have estimation that they will have, they will increase the production of
[00:05:51] such ballistic missiles.
[00:05:54] okay, joe Flynn joins us live from key,
[00:05:58] and joe, these, there is an obvious optic
[00:06:02] here, isn't there in Russian strikes on Ukrainian
[00:06:05] territory, just talk us through the
[00:06:07] latest,
[00:06:11] yeah, as you men and we overnight saw few
[00:06:15] casualties in places, including in
[00:06:17] the the eastern part the the front line, but also in the north insumi as well, russian glide bombs there
[00:06:21] hitting sumi city, injuring number of people and also resulting
[00:06:25] a couple of deaths,
[00:06:26] it is normal evening, normal night for Ukraine, but one that is
[00:06:30] increasingly concerning of course in the context the ballistic missiles and the lack of
[00:06:34] air defenses that Ukraine currently has, Vladimir Zelinski there talking
[00:06:38] to uh the UK defense minister was streating, we know that he has been having conversations
[00:06:42] yesterday. to
[00:06:43] with Mark Rutter about how Ukraine can accelerate
[00:06:46] access to European partners, interceptors, things
[00:06:50] that are actually able to shoot down these ballistic missiles, because currently Ukraine
[00:06:54] basically has nothing. The key element of this is the US Patriot
[00:06:58] system, there are conversations between Kiev and Washington
[00:07:02] DC over both access to patriot systems, to patriot
[00:07:05] interceptor missiles themselves, but also about Ukraine's ability to
[00:07:09] manufacture patriots in the future. The... key fact in all of
[00:07:13] this is the lead time that it would take to to do so, even with
[00:07:17] patriot systems getting green lit today, we would still be looking at the middle of next year before
[00:07:20] those will be able to come on stream and possibly even later before they're actually able to be
[00:07:24] integrated into Ukrainian air defense. In the meantime,
[00:07:28] Ukraine is working incredibly hard to try and boost its own
[00:07:32] defensive um domestic manufacturing
[00:07:35] capabilities, defense firms here that we've been talking to over the last couple of days and that we
[00:07:39] are talking to uh in the the coming days as well - are really
[00:07:42] trying to move forward quickly tandem with their European partners,
[00:07:46] but there are significant road blocks, chief among them is how they
[00:07:50] pay for it, and those are conversations too that both NATO and Vladimir
[00:07:54] Zelinski will trying to have in European capitals. J, there are also
[00:07:58] other pressures aren't there facing um President
[00:08:01] Zelensky uh domestically um
[00:08:05] within within the party and his cabinet as well, um, we've
[00:08:08] seen people being put to one side and and new positions or new...
[00:08:12] stepping into these positions, but I want to just concentrate um
[00:08:16] very quickly on the price that
[00:08:20] Ukrainian forces are paying. Um, how are we
[00:08:23] on conscription, because there were issues number of months
[00:08:27] ago, and do we still have this element of war
[00:08:30] fatigue?
[00:08:34] Yeah, there is definitely an element of that at the moment,
[00:08:37] Ukraine is trying to conduct this conflict in
[00:08:41] a very asymmetric. sense that is to say that the Russian tactics that they've employed for
[00:08:45] most the last four and a half years have really focused on
[00:08:49] what many people consider to be an expendable attitude towards human life in
[00:08:53] and around trying to take frontline positions, particularly in the
[00:08:56] Donbas area, that's where of course we see most the heaviest fighting, that is
[00:09:00] where we have the largest number of uh small FPV drones that
[00:09:04] are um being seen in in video on social media and
[00:09:08] um we saw instance of that this week, but how that manifests itself going
[00:09:11] forwards? think is is is key in this drone conversation, because the drones of
[00:09:15] course bring a very different advantage, they are able to save human lives because they don't put
[00:09:19] people in danger in the same way. okay, Gelflin, thank you very much
[00:09:35] you what those stock piles are comprised of. they do remain
[00:09:38] heavily dependent on foreign support. President Zelensky.
[00:09:42] said that Keeve couldn't intercept any the Russian
[00:09:46] missiles that were targeted at it on Wednesday,
[00:09:50] overnight, Tuesday into Wednesday, because they had nothing to shoot
[00:09:54] back. Now after the attacks, President Zelensky, adding that
[00:09:57] supplies of air defense missiles fell by two-thirds in
[00:10:01] the first half of this year, compared with the same period in
[00:10:05] 2025, so the army is experiencing a
[00:10:09] shortage, particularly of those US-made patriots.
[00:10:12] missiles, the president has requested
[00:10:16] license to produce patriots domestically, but the white
[00:10:19] house hasn't yet made decision, we did have the decision, but
[00:10:23] then the president rolled back. that President Trump, so Keve is also
[00:10:27] aiming to produce its own interceptors. Ukrainian defense
[00:10:31] company Firepoint is currently developing an interceptor known
[00:10:35] as the Freyer project. So that's where we
[00:10:38] stand. For further analysis on this, I'm joined now by
[00:10:42] Alexe Muraviyev, who is in Perth in Australia, a
[00:10:46] senior research fellow in defense and strategic studies
[00:10:50] at Edith Cawen University. Welcome to the
[00:10:52] program, just how... pariluss a position is
[00:10:56] Ukraine in at the moment?
[00:11:00] Look, Ukraine right now is is in completely different
[00:11:03] position to compared to where it
[00:11:07] was when uh Russia launched its invasion uh of
[00:11:11] the country. Right now Ukraine has almost lost all
[00:11:15] of its indigenous defense capability, Russia managed to destroy
[00:11:18] it, and is now entirely
[00:11:21] dependent on on on the supply of western military.
[00:11:25] technology, the Ukraine also faces different sort of
[00:11:28] challenge, which is logistical challenge,
[00:11:31] because
[00:11:33] it it it
[00:11:33] it is, it is supplied with a multitude of
[00:11:37] of different defense systems and each them
[00:11:41] require unique approach, each them require a
[00:11:45] different set of munitions, and that just
[00:11:49] amalgamates the problem, and and once the
[00:11:52] Ukrainians are sort of continue to make request and please
[00:11:56] about - needing more of western support, I
[00:12:00] think there is needs to be a reality check, because since
[00:12:04] the since the start the war uh the western coalition
[00:12:07] supplied Ukraine with some 100 air
[00:12:11] defense systems and several hundreds of surface to
[00:12:15] air missiles, well by comparison when
[00:12:18] Ukraine became independent in
[00:12:22] 1992, it inherited a full integrated air
[00:12:25] defense system from the Soviet Union, which at that time
[00:12:29] comprised just over
[00:12:31] 220 air defense system,
[00:12:34] so if you if you compare it, the western allies the
[00:12:38] past four years supplied half of what Ukraine
[00:12:42] inherited from the former Soviet Union, and that's a
[00:12:45] significant chunk
[00:12:49] of western supplied military technology,
[00:12:52] something that cannot simply be sustained. in terms of
[00:12:56] continuous supply forever because uh systems dry up and
[00:12:59] when when munitions dry up or the russians destroy
[00:13:03] them one by one and and and
[00:13:06] and and the west is facing a significant dilemma because the
[00:13:10] stocks that the west has of advanced air defense
[00:13:13] systems as well as munitions is not endless
[00:13:16] and certainly the war in in Iran that's been said
[00:13:20] many times have dried up what what the United States managed to
[00:13:24] accumulate. "and the production capacity the
[00:13:27] United States predominantly
[00:13:29] and to less extent some uh key western European countries
[00:13:33] is quite limited
[00:13:34] to replain stocks for for their own forces in the first
[00:13:38] instance leave alone to whatever they can share with the
[00:13:41] Ukrainians. Alexay, we are heading into winter,
[00:13:45] these talks that were were held in last 24 hours were part of a winter
[00:13:48] resilience meeting. I'm just thinking if nothing
[00:13:52] is done and we head into winter..." "what sort of
[00:13:56] territorial advantages does Ukraine
[00:14:00] risk losing if NATO and its allies do
[00:14:03] nothing, can they afford to not do
[00:14:06] something? look, I
[00:14:10] mean it's it's a question whether they can afford not to
[00:14:14] do something or whether they can afford to strip themselves
[00:14:18] uh metaphorically naked if if they seriously
[00:14:21] considering that there is going to be clesh" between Russia
[00:14:25] and need around the year 2030 if not if not
[00:14:29] early and and certainly when it comes to strategic and defense planning,
[00:14:33] it's not about uh just responding to whatever is happening right
[00:14:37] now, it's also thinking over the horizon and and
[00:14:40] obviously defense procurement requires a pretty
[00:14:44] lengthy time spends in in terms of what Ukraine is
[00:14:48] risking of losing while the Russians have been very clear what what they want in terms
[00:14:51] of territorial grabs, they want the... remainder the
[00:14:55] danbas region plus parts of what they describe as
[00:14:59] novrossia meaning parts the
[00:15:02] Perisya as well
[00:15:04] as Herson regions which are currently under Ukraine's
[00:15:07] control, but even even that I think one the
[00:15:10] key challenges that we face when we try to
[00:15:14] understand Russia's intentions in
[00:15:16] in in Ukraine, Russia is not so much preoccupied about territorial
[00:15:20] expense, they are there to destroy the capacity of
[00:15:24] Ukraine. to posse any security risk down the track down the
[00:15:28] track and and and therefore they focusing on on
[00:15:32] literally dismantly in Ukraine's human capacity as
[00:15:35] well as its um defense capabilities and and
[00:15:39] by that they also sort of dismantle whatever
[00:15:43] NATO is is is having because NATO is effectively given
[00:15:46] away significant chunks of this arsenal to to the
[00:15:50] Ukrainians so this is in my view what
[00:15:53] Russia uh pursues in the first instance so
[00:15:57] whatever whatever Ukraine may be losing between now and and
[00:16:01] winter may look insignificant in terms of territorial
[00:16:05] expense but what would be
[00:16:07] significant can be measured in terms of
[00:16:11] how many more soldiers Ukraine will lose, how many more civilians
[00:16:15] Ukraine will lose and how many more military equipment which is really
[00:16:19] expensive Ukraine may lose as results of this
[00:16:22] ongoing campaign with the
[00:16:32] Myanmar's leader is in Thailand on an official visit
[00:16:36] as Bangkok push. for re-engagement with its wartorn
[00:16:39] neighbor and Asian, the regional block. now their
[00:16:43] leaders have been barred from Asian summits since
[00:16:46] 2021, when Min Ong Hang
[00:16:50] staged a coup against the elected government of
[00:16:53] Angsansuchi. It all led to a civil war that killed an
[00:16:56] estimated 100,00 people. Min is the
[00:17:00] subject of raft of western sanctions and has been seeking
[00:17:04] international legitimacy since becoming president
[00:17:07] April and this follows an election that he won
[00:17:10] overwhelmingly by an army-backed party in the
[00:17:14] absence of any viable
[00:17:16] opposition. So uh,
[00:17:20] the president is currently a two-day visit to
[00:17:23] Thailand uh on Thursday, putting a
[00:17:27] trade and cross-border crime on the agenda along
[00:17:31] their shared frontier. Now, just to put things into context for you,
[00:17:35] Bangkok is seeking closer cooperation. particularly against networks
[00:17:39] that have survived repeated crackdowns um as the former
[00:17:42] junter leader tries to restore formal ties in the region so let's take a look at
[00:17:46] one of those issues. now the
[00:17:50] UN has pointed out that town in southeastern
[00:17:53] Myanmar, it's known as Mawadi, has now become a
[00:17:57] major cyber scam and human trafficking hub.
[00:18:01] workers, we understand, are lured there with fake jobs into
[00:18:05] industrial compounds and then force. to run romance and
[00:18:09] cryptocurrency investment scams targeting victims
[00:18:12] worldwide. Back in February 2025, Bangkok,
[00:18:16] you remember cut electricity, internet and fuel to five
[00:18:20] Myanmar border areas, then tighten telecom banking and border
[00:18:23] checks. Thailand also helped to free around 5,000
[00:18:27] people trapped in Myanmar scam centers. Rights groups
[00:18:31] estimate that more than 5,300 foreign nationals are
[00:18:35] still being held in four. these sites that have been
[00:18:39] identified, so last month, Myanmar passed a law authorizing
[00:18:43] life imprisonment for operating scam center, whilst
[00:18:46] violent coersion can carry the death penalty
[00:18:50] if victim dies, the UN is saying
[00:18:53] that the networks are outpacing enforcement using AI
[00:18:57] and expanding after taking at least 80 88 billion
[00:19:01] dollars from Asia Pacific victims in
[00:19:03] 2025. Okay.
[00:19:07] more than decade after a conflict has
[00:19:11] left deep scars across Syria, many them invisible,
[00:19:15] years of violence have taken a heavy psychological toll,
[00:19:19] particularly a generation that has grown up knowing little but war.
[00:19:23] well, in Aleppo, young Syrians are turning to music and cultural
[00:19:26] spaces to reconnect with one another and begin the journey to
[00:19:30] healing. no Cormash
[00:19:31] reports,
[00:19:35] the sound of a guitar, a familiar melody or simply
[00:19:39] singing alongside friends. For many young Syrians,
[00:19:43] these moments have become far more than music. They are
[00:19:47] small but meaningful steps toward healing after years of
[00:19:51] conflict that disrupted nearly every aspect of daily
[00:19:54] life.
[00:20:00] I come here to sing because it's a safe place for many people and for
[00:20:03] me it's a place negative energy. me
[00:20:07] break the barriers between me and other people, i used to get nervous
[00:20:11] easily and over time i
[00:20:13] improved. this is very important
[00:20:17] space for people who have talent but are afraid and the environment
[00:20:21] here is very supportive. the
[00:20:24] united nations says millions of syrians continue to grapple with the
[00:20:28] psychological and social scars of more than decade of
[00:20:32] war, but as life gradually returns to normal in post
[00:20:35] Assad Syria, ers
[00:20:38] say rebuilding social connections in spaces like this community hall
[00:20:42] is just as important as rebuilding damaged infrastructure,
[00:20:46] particularly for a generation shaped by years of uncertainty.
[00:21:20] but a place of comfort whether for studying, working or connecting with
[00:21:23] others. It also helps people build relationships with the community
[00:21:27] and supports them a personal level. Young people here
[00:21:31] say these spaces offer far more than just music and
[00:21:34] entertainment. For many, they provide rare sense of normalcy and
[00:21:38] a chance to reconnect after years of hardships and
[00:21:41] uncertainty. They say simply spending time together, sharing a live
[00:21:45] and enjoying everyday moments reflects the resilience of an entire
[00:21:49] generation. that has grown up through one the most devastating
[00:21:52] conflicts in the modern era, one that is determined to
[00:21:56] reclaim a sense of hope and rebuild its future. no
[00:22:00] commercialt world, alipo, syria.
[00:22:03] okay, let's catch up with a sport, charlotte baits is here with that, plenty in the
[00:22:07] sporting world, charlotte,
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[00:30:10] Hello, you're watching TRT World, I'm laquest for reminder of our main
[00:30:13] headlines: Iran says it's reached an
[00:30:16] understanding with Oman a route for ships
[00:30:20] transiting the straight of Homus, but Terran has also
[00:30:23] warned that just an agreement doesn't guarantee safe passage
[00:30:27] through the straight due to the US Nadal blockade. Officials
[00:30:31] in Washington had hoped. agreement to open the straight would happen this
[00:30:35] week, president Trump says talks with Iran are still ongoing despite teran
[00:30:38] earlier denying holding direct negotiations with the
[00:30:42] US. I can say that the latest
[00:30:46] situation is that almost all the topics are under discussion,
[00:30:50] the map, the transit routes, the entering and exiting of...